“UNTIL WE’RE FREE” IS THE RARE RECORDING FROM THE FIRST AND ONLY FEMALE CHAIR OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE ALBUM WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1973 ON BLACK FORUM AND DESCRIBED BY THE COMPANY AT THE TIME AS “A PERMANENT RECORD OF THE SOUND OF STRUGGLE AND THE SOUND OF THE NEW ERA.”

THE ALBUM’S NINE SONGS WERE WRITTEN BY BROWN, AND PRODUCED BY FREDDIE PERREN AND FONCE MIZELL, ONE-HALF OF THE MOTOWN PRODUCTION TEAM THEN KNOWN AS THE CORPORATION, WHO CREATED THE FIRST HITS FOR THE JACKSON 5. “UNTIL WE’RE FREE” WAS ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY HORACE TAPSCOTT, A PIANIST, COMPOSER AND FOUNDER OF THE PAN-AFRIKAN PEOPLES ARKESTRA. ALBUM COVER ART WAS CREATED BY EMORY DOUGLAS, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY’S MINISTER OF CULTURE. THE ALBUM INCLUDES THE SINGLE, “UNTIL WE’RE FREE,” WHICH WAS ALSO THE ONE AND ONLY SINGLE ON BLACK FORUM, ISSUED IN THE SPRING OF 1973. BLACK PANTHER PARTY CO-FOUNDER, HUEY P. NEWTON, WROTE THE ALBUM LINER NOTES. ELAINE WAS DEFINITELY A LEADER OF HER GENERATION AND THOSE TO COME. “UNTIL WE’RE FREE” WAS ANOTHER PERMANENT IMPRINT SHE LEFT ON HISTORY.

SIDE A

A1. NO TIME
A2. JONATHAN
A3. CAN’T GO BACK
A4. ALL THE YOUNG AND FINE MEN
A5. UNTIL WE’RE FREE

SIDE B

B1. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
B2. CHILD IN THE WORLD
B3. A LITTLE BABY
B4. AND WE SHALL MEET AGAIN

ALL TUNES WRITTEN BY ELAINE BROWN
ALL TUNES PRODUCED BY FREDDIE PERREN AND FONCE MIZELL
ALL TUNES ARRANGED BY HORACE TAPSCOTT
ILLUSTRATION OF ELAINE BY EMORY DOUGLAS